Engineered safflower with enhanced omega-6 fatty acid

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Engineered safflower with enhanced omega-6 fatty
acid
SOURCE Arcadia Biosciences http//www.bizjournals
.com/sacramento/stories/2008/02/18/daily48.html?b
12033108005E1595841
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New rice variety with higher protein and lysine
content created by crossing cultivated and wild
rice varieties
SOURCE Mahmoud, A.A., Sukumar, S. and Krishnan,
H.B. 2008. Interspecific Rice Hybrid of Oryza
sativa Oryza nivara Reveals a Significant
Increase in Seed Protein Content. J. Agric. Food
Chem. 56 476482
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Altering transport gene in carrot results in more
bioavailable calcium
SOURCE Morris, J., Hawthorne, K.M., Hotze, T.,
Abrams, S.A. and Hirschi, K.D. 2008. Nutritional
impact of elevated calcium transport activity in
carrots. PNAS 10.1073/pnas.0709005105.
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Natural mutation results in cow that produces
skimmed milk
SOURCE http//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070528/sc_af
p/nzealandsciencemilk
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Significant reduction in toxic gossypol in cotton
seeds could provide nutritional source for humans
and animals
SOURCE Sunilkumar et al. 2006. Engineering
cottonseed for use in human nutrition by
tissue-specific reduction of toxic gossypol. PNAS
103 18054-18059.
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Gene from wild wheat could improve nutritional
value of cultivated wheat
SOURCE Uauy et al. 2006. A NAC gene regulating
senescence improves grain protein, zinc, and iron
content in wheat. Science 314 1298-1301.
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Introduction of single bacterial gene increases
folate levels in tomato to levels comparable to
spinach
SOURCE Diaz de la Garza, R.I., Jesse F. Gregory
III, J.F. and Hanson, A.D. 2007. Folate
biofortification of tomato fruit. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences USA 104
4218-4222.
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Flavonoid-enriched GE tomato has lower levels of
protein associated with high risk of
cardiovascular disease
SOURCE Rein, D., Schijlen, E., Kooistra, T.,
Herbers, K., Verschuren, L., Hall, R., Sonnewald,
U., Bovy, A. and Kleemann, R. 2006. Transgenic
Flavonoid Tomato Intake Reduces C-Reactive
Protein in Human C-Reactive Protein Transgenic
Mice More Than Wild-Type Tomato. J. Nutr. 136
2331-2337.
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Engineered potato contains 3 times more calcium
SOURCE Park et al. 2005. Genetic Manipulation
for Enhancing Calcium Content in Potato Tuber.
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 53
5598-5603.
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Super Broccoli created by classical genetics
contains 3.4x sulforaphane, potential anti-cancer
agent
SOURCE http//www.ifrn.bbsrc.ac.uk/Media/NewsRele
ases/051207broccoli.html
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Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Feed
- Reduces Need for Lysine Supplements February
2006
SOURCEFebruary 2006, BIOSPACE http//www.biospace
.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID8883full1
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Golden Rice enhanced pro-vitaminA
SOURCE Texas AM University
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Safflower Oil Enhanced with Omega-6 Fatty Acids
SOURCE Arcadia Biosciences
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Improving nutritional quality of sorghum for
Africa using plant genes
SOURCE www.supersorghum.org
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Engineered rice with 6-times more iron in
polished rice
SOURCE Wirth, J., Poletti, S., Aeschlimann, B.,
Yakandawala, N., Drosse, B., Osorio, S., Tohge,
T., Fernie, A.R., Günther, D., Gruissem, W. and
Sautter, C. 2009. Rice endosperm iron
biofortification by targeted and synergistic
action of nicotianamine synthase and ferritin.
Plant Biotechnology Journal 7 114.
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The Contraction of Product Quality Innovation in
Agricultural Biotechnology
Surveys of actual and expected progress in ten
categories of product quality innovations with
transgenic plants.
SOURCE Graff, G.D., Zilberman, D. and Bennett,
A.B. 2009. The contraction of agbiotech product
quality innovation in agricultural biotechnology.
Nature Biotechnology, in press (August, 2009).
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Low acrylamide, low sugar bruising resistance in
potato engineered only with potato DNA under
consideration for deregulation by APHIS
SOURCE Comment period opens on biotech potato,
Truth About Trade Technology,
5/2/13 http//www.truthabouttrade.org/2013/05/03/c
omment-period-opens-on-biotech-potato/
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SOURCE Golden Rice Lifesaver?, New York
Times, August 24, 2013. http//www.nytimes.com/201
3/08/25/sunday-review/golden-rice-lifesaver.html
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Innate Ranger Russets and Atlantics with  reduced
bruising and black spots, late blight disease
resistance, reduced levels of acrylamide, and
enhanced cold storage deregulated October 2016
SOURCE USDA deregulates more second-generation
biotech potatoes, Capital Press, October 31,
2016. http//www.capitalpress.com/Profit/20161031
/usda-deregulates-more-second-generation-biotech-p
otatoes